This Project Space exhibition is a rotating presentation of works produced in response to the Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society’s Common Ground Dinner Series.

Based on the Making Treaty 7 methodology, this dinner series explored the theme of The Land through eight sub-themes: Energy, Agriculture, Education, Law, Culture, Borders, Safety and Security, and Medicine.

Seventy-five Indigenous and non-Indigenous influencers from the area attended three dinners, each a month apart, and were led through an interactive, experiential process where they participated in ceremony, witnessed vignettes, completed the blanket exercise, listened, shared, and wrote a haiku. Each table at the dinner was graced with an Elder and a local artist. Participants created a Statement of Hope in response to each theme and the invited artists created works to represent these statements. The artworks created range in media from jewellery to glass, ceramics to photography, poetry to painting, drawing to installation art. Over the next twelve weeks, each of the works created in response to the Dinner Series will be displayed in the Project Space in two groupings.

Light sculptures from Landry’s Mandala series and two of her most recent kinetic installations are presented in this solo exhibition at VIVIANEART. One of the featured artworks, Fall, animates an image of a waterfall in perpetual motion using a uniquely constructed flip-book panel. The sculpture draws connection between natural and mechanical forces; two areas of interest that motivate Landry’s ongoing artistic investigations.

Landry has exhibited and performed widely throughout Canada and internationally. Her work was included in the internationally touring group exhibition, ‘Oh, Canada’ (2014/15), and recently in the 2017 Quebec Biennial of Art (2017), and Biennial panOramas, Bassens, France (2016). Landry’s works can be found in numerous public and private collections and she has been the recipient of multiple awards, grants and distinctions, including the Giverny Capital Prize and the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. Landry currently lives and works in Quebec City.